View, facing northwest, of the Pajarito Plateau (later to be named Bandelier National Park). Bushes and trees dot the rocky desert landscape. St. Peter's Dome and Boundary Peak stand in the distance. Possibly the Sangre de Cristo Mountains stand in...

A Native American man stands next to a tuff cliffside with eroded holes enlarged by ancestral Pueblo Indians for dwellings and ceremonial spaces, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico; became Bandelier National Monument in 1916.

A team of two horses pull an automobile up a sandy road while men look on, Pajarito Plateau, Pajarito Park (Bandelier National Monument), New Mexico. One man sits in the car. A saddled horse stands on the road. Rocky desert landscape surrounds the...

A Native American guide pauses on the Frijoles Canyon trail with an elderly man with a white beard and walking stick and a woman carrying a toolbox, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. The steep trail switches back and forth along the volcanic...

A Native American guides pauses on the Frijoles Canyon trail below a elderly man with a with beard and walking stick and a woman carrying a toolbox; the steep trail switches back and forth along the volcanic tuff. Bandelier National Monument, New...

A timber ladder provides access into a kiva structure under volcanic tuff cliffs, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. The reconstructed kiva is built up with rock and has a retangular entrance framed with timber. A natural...

View of an enlarged entrance into a natural cave in soft volcanic rock, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico; occupied by ancestral Pueblo Indians between the 13th (thirteenth) and 16th (sixteenth) century.